What is the ruling on eating meat imported from the lands of disbelief?
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Another questioner: That is, is it halal, for example, for us, or is there something upon us?
The Shaykh: These meats that come from abroad are affected by the Muslims' deviation from the Shari'ah, for Allah the Exalted only permitted Muslims to eat the slaughter of the People of the Book, not everything that the People of the Book eat. The People of the Book eat what Allah has forbidden; they eat, as you know, pork. And as the Lord of the Worlds said in the Noble Qur'an:[At-Tawbah 9:29] The point here is [At-Tawbah 9:29] regarding these People of the Book, Allah the Exalted said about them: [Al-Ma'idah 5:5] And the scholars of tafsir say about this verse: [Al-Ma'idah 5:5] So, if the People of the Book slaughter what is permissible for us first, and then slaughter according to the Islamic method as they claim today second, in that case it is permissible for Muslims to eat from their slaughter. However, it is known today that the disbelievers do not slaughter according to the Islamic method; rather, they kill them by killing, because slaughtering according to the Islamic method takes a long time, and they, as Allah the Exalted described them in His saying: [Ar-Rum 30:7] They know the value of time, so they are keen to seize the time and squeeze it to the last drop. Since slaughtering according to the Sharia method takes a long time, they kill it by one method or another and begin to flay it. Especially since when the animal is not slaughtered, its blood remains and coagulates inside it, and does not go out to the ground, so it becomes a carcass with more weight than if it had been slaughtered according to the Sharia method. Therefore, the slaughters that come from those countries, or the canned goods made in those countries, it is not permissible to eat them, buy them, or sell them at all. It has come to these countries and other Islamic countries that they were deceived, either by the disbelievers themselves, which is not far-fetched from them, or by some merchants who have no integrity, where they broadcast and spread that this is slaughtered according to the Islamic method. Broadcasts are made and rumors spread that a committee from such-and-such a country, appointed by such-and-such a ministry, went to supervise the method of slaughter. Years passed and people were eating from these killed animals, not slaughtered, under the name that they were slaughtered according to the Islamic method. And then, unfortunately, and as the old Arab poet said:
"And whatever character a man has, even if he thinks it is hidden from people, it is known."
No matter how much they try to keep it secret, its smell comes out afterwards. It is nothing but a double-dealing and deception, and there is no slaughtering according to the Islamic method at all. The proof is that they once found, as it is said, fish labeled as "slaughtered according to the Islamic method" ...
The questioner: Fish
The Shaykh: Fish, this is part of the deception and treachery. And I do not rule out that any government that agrees with a disbeliever state to import slaughters from them, they actually perform a play there, really slaughter according to the Islamic method, and the committee witnesses. Not falsely, they witness the reality, but they turn their backs from here. And as the old Arab proverb says: "Halimah returned to her old habit." Therefore, we do not advise a Muslim to eat from these animals at all, because they are not slaughtered but killed by killing. I was destined, about twenty years ago, to visit some foreign countries like Britain, Spain, and Italy, but my stay varied from country to country. The point is, in Britain, we got to know, on the occasion of Hajj, a young Pakistani who told me that he has a slaughterhouse in Britain in a town about one hundred and twenty kilometers from London. And indeed, we visited this man who really has a slaughterhouse according to the Islamic method, and he showed us his method of slaughter. In a very large place in a sheep pen, and a special room to lead the sheep's head one after another to a very narrow entrance. There, two men stand; one lifts the animal and lays it down, and the other slaughters it at lightning speed. It was slaughtered from here. What is this thing called that it was hung on?
The questioner: A halter
The Shaykh: A halter, it was hung. This halter pushes it like this, it goes on a track like this, then it turns behind a wall. We turned with it and found behind the wall a person standing waiting for the slaughtered animal. It does not reach him until it has, what is the word, breathed its last breath. His job is only to flay the skin and throw it in a barrel, then he pushes it a second time, it goes to a third person whose job is only to extract the ...
The questioner: Offal
The Shaykh: The offal, this offal, the liver, and others. After that, he has water gushing with force; he directs this water inside and outside. It comes out shining. He gives it the final push, each one on a track, it goes to the scale, the animal is weighed, then a card is written on it with its weight, and it is sent to the customers who were waiting outside. The point is, he tells me the British themselves buy from him, because they know that this slaughter is medically, medically healthier, because the blood did not remain in its body; it was purified and went to the ground. Then this same man has a poultry farm; every day, I don't know, even if it were a lie, two million heads are slaughtered according to the Islamic method, chickens, and people do not believe that they get this type of chicken slaughtered according to the Islamic method. When I went to Spain and entered the market, we found the chicken displayed in refrigerated boxes, frozen, with their heads as they are. The chicken with its head, not slaughtered or anything, killed by killing ...
The questioner: Stunned by electricity
The Shaykh: Yes, stunned by electricity
The questioner: The summary of the ruling, meaning
Another questioner: The summary of the ruling, O Shaykh
The Shaykh: ... The summary of the ruling, this tape is here
The questioner: Yes, it is ready
The Shaykh: The summary of the ruling is that it is not permissible to eat from the slaughters, or what is called slaughters, that come from the lands of disbelief, because they are killed by killing and not slaughtered by slaughtering
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh: What, did the mosquito come?
The questioner: No, by Allah
Another questioner: Praise be to Allah, you are alert
The Shaykh: What Allah willed, what is this precaution about?
The questioner: This
The Shaykh: This enclosure, what is it for?
The questioner: They made it for a sitting like this, meaning
The Shaykh: So that it does not become a sacred tree, this
The Shaykh : Yes.
Al-Halabi: O our Shaykh, it is piled up, not sacred
The Shaykh: Good, like this tree in many countries becomes a tree of knots. From there, my brother, from the one on the right inside, yes, passThe Shaykh : PassThe Shaykh : , yes.
The questioner : ..
The Shaykh: On the Sunnah, a tree of knots. Rags are tied to it because it has polytheistic and pagan beliefs tied to it. And among the wonders of things, the first Hajj I performed and I visited the Holy Mosque, there was a tree there.
The Shaykh: These meats that come from abroad are affected by the Muslims' deviation from the Shari'ah, for Allah the Exalted only permitted Muslims to eat the slaughter of the People of the Book, not everything that the People of the Book eat. The People of the Book eat what Allah has forbidden; they eat, as you know, pork. And as the Lord of the Worlds said in the Noble Qur'an:
Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful
قاتلوا الذين لا يؤمنون بالله ولا باليوم الآخر ولا يحرمون ما حرم الله ورسولهand who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not adopt the religion of truth from those who were given the Scripture - [fight] until they give the jizyah willingly while they are humbled.
ولا يحرمون ما حرم الله ورسوله ولا يدينون دين الحق من الذين أوتوا الكتاب حتى يعطوا الجزية عن يد وهم صاغرونand the food of those who were given the Scripture is lawful for you
وطعام الذين أوتوا الكتاب حل لكمthe food of those who were given the Scripture
وطعام الذين أوتوا الكتابThey know what is apparent of the worldly life, but they, of the Hereafter, are unaware.
يعلمون ظاهرا من الحياة الدنيا وهم عن الآخرة هم غافلون"And whatever character a man has, even if he thinks it is hidden from people, it is known."
No matter how much they try to keep it secret, its smell comes out afterwards. It is nothing but a double-dealing and deception, and there is no slaughtering according to the Islamic method at all. The proof is that they once found, as it is said, fish labeled as "slaughtered according to the Islamic method" ...
The questioner: Fish
The Shaykh: Fish, this is part of the deception and treachery. And I do not rule out that any government that agrees with a disbeliever state to import slaughters from them, they actually perform a play there, really slaughter according to the Islamic method, and the committee witnesses. Not falsely, they witness the reality, but they turn their backs from here. And as the old Arab proverb says: "Halimah returned to her old habit." Therefore, we do not advise a Muslim to eat from these animals at all, because they are not slaughtered but killed by killing. I was destined, about twenty years ago, to visit some foreign countries like Britain, Spain, and Italy, but my stay varied from country to country. The point is, in Britain, we got to know, on the occasion of Hajj, a young Pakistani who told me that he has a slaughterhouse in Britain in a town about one hundred and twenty kilometers from London. And indeed, we visited this man who really has a slaughterhouse according to the Islamic method, and he showed us his method of slaughter. In a very large place in a sheep pen, and a special room to lead the sheep's head one after another to a very narrow entrance. There, two men stand; one lifts the animal and lays it down, and the other slaughters it at lightning speed. It was slaughtered from here. What is this thing called that it was hung on?
The questioner: A halter
The Shaykh: A halter, it was hung. This halter pushes it like this, it goes on a track like this, then it turns behind a wall. We turned with it and found behind the wall a person standing waiting for the slaughtered animal. It does not reach him until it has, what is the word, breathed its last breath. His job is only to flay the skin and throw it in a barrel, then he pushes it a second time, it goes to a third person whose job is only to extract the ...
The questioner: Offal
The Shaykh: The offal, this offal, the liver, and others. After that, he has water gushing with force; he directs this water inside and outside. It comes out shining. He gives it the final push, each one on a track, it goes to the scale, the animal is weighed, then a card is written on it with its weight, and it is sent to the customers who were waiting outside. The point is, he tells me the British themselves buy from him, because they know that this slaughter is medically, medically healthier, because the blood did not remain in its body; it was purified and went to the ground. Then this same man has a poultry farm; every day, I don't know, even if it were a lie, two million heads are slaughtered according to the Islamic method, chickens, and people do not believe that they get this type of chicken slaughtered according to the Islamic method. When I went to Spain and entered the market, we found the chicken displayed in refrigerated boxes, frozen, with their heads as they are. The chicken with its head, not slaughtered or anything, killed by killing ...
The questioner: Stunned by electricity
The Shaykh: Yes, stunned by electricity
The questioner: The summary of the ruling, meaning
Another questioner: The summary of the ruling, O Shaykh
The Shaykh: ... The summary of the ruling, this tape is here
The questioner: Yes, it is ready
The Shaykh: The summary of the ruling is that it is not permissible to eat from the slaughters, or what is called slaughters, that come from the lands of disbelief, because they are killed by killing and not slaughtered by slaughtering
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh: What, did the mosquito come?
The questioner: No, by Allah
Another questioner: Praise be to Allah, you are alert
The Shaykh: What Allah willed, what is this precaution about?
The questioner: This
The Shaykh: This enclosure, what is it for?
The questioner: They made it for a sitting like this, meaning
The Shaykh: So that it does not become a sacred tree, this
The Shaykh : Yes.
Al-Halabi: O our Shaykh, it is piled up, not sacred
The Shaykh: Good, like this tree in many countries becomes a tree of knots. From there, my brother, from the one on the right inside, yes, passThe Shaykh : PassThe Shaykh : , yes.
The questioner : ..
The Shaykh: On the Sunnah, a tree of knots. Rags are tied to it because it has polytheistic and pagan beliefs tied to it. And among the wonders of things, the first Hajj I performed and I visited the Holy Mosque, there was a tree there.
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